de-modularising for the win!

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Sep 18 23:49:33 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 19:47 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:42:15PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>  > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 12:13 -0700, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>  > > See various and sundry plumber's conf discussions.
>  > 
>  > If we build in the loop module, we need to bump the default of number of
>  > loopdevs[1] to keep things happier for live images.  Right now, we just
>  > set maxloop in modprobe.conf
> 
> does it not appear configurable in sysfs someplace?

Unless something has changed from when I looked last, no.  The devices
are statically allocated on module(/built-in) load and that's as many as
you get.

Jeremy




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